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TIL Adolf Hitler’s nephew, William Hitler, served int the US Navy during WWII and received a Purple Heart

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VMwMQ TIL that Gregor Mendel, the founder of modern genetics, may have falsified data in his famous pea experiment in order to better correspond with his expectations.
DL8D TIL of a 1995 WHO study that stated “occasional cocaine use does not lead to severe or even minor physical or social problems” was never published because the US threatened to withdraw funding from all WHO projects.
8eNdG TIL that UC Berkeley offers a degree in "meme studies"
o89W TIL that the band, The Rolling Stones, would never have been formed if Keith Richards and Mick Jagger hadn’t accidentally met at a train station in 1961. Richards struck up a conversation with Jagger about the blues records that he was carrying. The connection was instant and the rest is history.
aJE0 TIL the longest wrongful conviction served was 35 years served by James Bain for a murder and rape he did not commit.